There were definitely times I couldn't shower for a full week because I could barely stand, it felt like having all your life sucked out of you.

Love is more than a word to me. It's something that I see and feel in the people around me that makes me believe it and feel loved. It's nurturing and unconditional. It is consistent and reliable.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's the end of the world.

In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there.

We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!